Similarities Between Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

“People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.”-Francois de La Rochefoucauld. This quote, having been stated in the 1600’s, shows that there was a recognition of different aspects of one person’s personality, even before multiple personalities were studied in the medical world. In 1886, a groundbreaking novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, explored the idea of multiple personalities.

In the novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, are mentally very different. Dr. Jekyll is a man who is well liked in his community, and is regarded as a good doctor. He helps with charities, and has many friends. Jekyll is intelligent, and well spoken. Mr. Hyde is just the opposite. He is mentally unstable, has a violent streak, and is not friendly or sociable. Most people that know Dr. Jekyll are quite confused by the relationship between Jekyll and Hyde. They are so extremely different mentally that it does not seem likely that the two would be friends.

In the beginning u could be live that these two are two different people with two different personalities. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are very different but there is one thing that makes them alike in a way. Mr. Hyde is just always a jerk all the time, but Dr. Jekyll has a dark side to him it its very had to get to but it will come out if he pushed to his limits.

The novel Frankenstein and the novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde have similar cases that creates a common theme. In Frankenstein the monster is innocent like a baby and transforms into a beast mentally, because of the way people treated him. In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Jekyll is a nice man but like all people he has an evil side, he creates an experiment that allows him to change forms and let his evil side out. Both passages show that evil is in everyone, even the best people. In the novel and novella, the authors develop a common theme through the use of characters and events.

In this essay the two characters that are going to be compared are Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from the book "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Stevenson. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are very different physically. They are different mentally as well as morally. Dr. Jekyll has different personalities for when he's in public and when he's alone. On the other hand Mr. Hyde pretty much has no heart.

Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club is a satirical novel. In the novel an unnamed narrator struggles with insomnia and the ability to cope with an emasculated, self-centered, materialistic society. Which eventually leads him to develop a split personality named Tyler Durden. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a man named Dr. Jekyll is able to concoct a draught to split the good and evil of a man, but they develop into separate personalities in the same body.

In the novel “ The strange case of Dr. jekyll and Mr.hyde,” by the author Robert Louis Stevenson the two main characters Dr.Jekyll and Mr.hyde have many differences and similarities. Dr.Jekyll, the protagonist, is a respected scientists who goes through trials and tribulations with good and evil. Mr.Hyde, the antagonist, and is the corrupt side of Dr. Jekyll. There are certain aspects of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde’s personality that compare and they also contrast in certain situations. The way that they compare and contrast in terms of mentally, physically, and morally. There are many examples in this book that could compliment the different and relative characteristics that Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde have. The theme duality could be used as an example

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde had totally different physical traits. Physically Dr. Jekyll was known as a physician in London who was born into a wealthy family, so he is usually dressed professional and was well dressed. He is a big man, around fifty years old. His face is mostly smooth. ​ Dr. Jekyll's personality makes him appear important in town, even when he hides happiness as a secret. Mr. Hyde appears as just the opposite. Mr. Hyde is hunched over and appears smaller so his clothes are baggy. I picture him like the hunchback of Notre Dame, only uglier. When Richard Enfield describes Mr. Hyde's physical appearance, he says there is something very bad that is hard to explain. Although Mr. Hide appears as though there is some physical abnormality,

Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are not alike. Mr. Hyde is violent while Dr. Jekyll is calm, cool and collected. Dr. Jekyll is a man in his fifties, Mr. Hyde is much younger: “…Edward Hyde was so much smaller, slighter and younger than Henry Jekyll The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, pg. 107)”. Dr. Jekyll is handsome; however, Mr. Hyde is ugly. Dr. Jekyll is good and Mr. Hyde is in Dr. Jekyll’s words, “pure evil” (pg. 108). Dr. Jekyll is a kind person who, if he bumped into someone and knocked them down, would apologize and help them up. When Mr. Hyde bumped into the little girl, he did not care and walked all over her: “…[Mr. Hyde] left her screaming on the ground (pg. 40)”. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are not alike, yet they are the

Have you wondered why people are two faced? Well, According to google.com it states that two-faced means that insincere and deceitful. In this amazing book that Sir Robert Stevenson wrote called Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tell about a man that tramped a little girl then kept walking. However; in the book Mr. Jekyll commits a crime then becomes the most wanted in England. But no one knows that Mr. Jekyll is actually Mr. Hyde. To turn into the devious Mr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde creates a potion to turn himself back. But we don't live in the world of them, we see people every day, right? Yes, we do but in how many family members act one way with you then in front of other people they act completely different. Exactly what had happened in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde they are actually the same person but they have different personalities.

The depiction of both characters are recluses who do not care for human interactions, and seem to lack emotions. Both murdered people, had little to no regret in doing so nor showed sympathy in taking a life. Neither seems to care for the personal feelings of others and tend to come off as selfish at times. However, they two are also depicted differently from one another in their respective stories. Rodia is one of like a Jekyll and Hyde-type because of the way he comes off as mentally bipolar. Throughout the story he tends to vary with being compassionate and caring to commanding, angry, and only caring about his own interest. Meursault on the other hand appears to be void of any feeling at all. He refuses to cry at his own mother’s funeral,

Beginning with appearances, Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde are two completely separate people. Dr. Jekyll is described to be about fifty years old, smooth faced and kind looking, whereas Mr. Hyde is characterized has being something grotesque and having something really wrong with his appearance. Mr. Utterson describes his looks as, “something [really] wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable.” Dr. Jekyll is also written to be a very charitable man and close to his religion. Looking at the outside picture, it is very easy to see Dr. Jekyll as this kind hearted innocent man, but deep down he was very similar to Mr. Hyde. Mr. Hyde’s first characterization is from Mr. Utterson explaining to Mr. Enfield

The author of Frankenstein wrote this book at a young age of eighteen. Her name is Mary Shelley. The idea to create such a classic came to her as a competition to write the best “ghost story” between her her husband and Lord Byron on a getaway (Arp 858). Robert Louis Stevenson is the creator of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. He was a novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. The story came to him in dream, and he jotted the plot on a piece of paper and finished the story in three days. Published in 1886, Jekyll and Hyde was written to raise money for his family. Stevenson soon fell ill and shortly died at the young age of 44. Both, Frankenstein and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, share similarities and differences

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, struggles between good and evil in the human soul are strongly portrayed. I believe that in this morality tale, good had won over evil. Robert Louis Stephenson uses two characters in the story, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, to show the constant warfare of good and evil throughout the world. These two characters were Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Dr. Jekyll is a very successful man who lived in a wealthy estate, was very polite, extremely welcoming to other human beings, and lived to a very old age for his time period.

Until one night when he decided the fate of them both; there would be no exchange.